Sarathi Ray

COUNSEL / New York, NY

phone: 646-383-3737fax: 646-224-1144email:

Sarathi Ray concentrates his practice in the area of public finance. Sarathi has extensive experience serving as bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel in a variety of public finance transactions, including financings with the States of New York, Michigan, Connecticut, California, Maine, New Hampshire, and Florida. Sarathi has participated in transactions employing letters of credit, tender option bonds, floating rate monthly demand put bonds, insured housing bonds, multi-modal bonds, blended tax-exempt/taxable bonds, convertible option bonds, variable rate demand obligation bonds, and other types of public finance transactions. In connection with representing issuers, he has been responsible for preparing bond financing authorizations, loan agreements, disclosure in official statements, opinions, closing certificates, and negotiating transaction documents. With respect to serving as underwriters’ counsel, he had principal responsibility for drafting official statements, bond purchase agreements, remarketing agreements, blue sky memoranda, and opinions.

AREAS OF PRACTICEPublic Finance

BAR ADMISSIONSNew York, Florida, Connecticut, Michigan

EDUCATIONJD, University of Miami School of Law, cum laude; BA, University of Connecticut, cum laude